Oversee: Definition and part of speech

Oversee

  1. v. i. To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.
  2. v. t. To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.
  3. v. t. To omit or neglect seeing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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